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The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Honda Tetsuya's The Silent Dead.
This is the first in a series, and I do appreciate the US (and UK) publishers actually starting at the beginning (almost a rarity with translated crime fiction series...) -- but I kind of wish they had stuck with the original Japanese title, the English ????????? (phonetically: 'Strawberry Night'; see also the Japanese edition) -- a fitting (it comes up in the story) but more or less nonsensical-in-English (as is often the case with Japanese attempts at appropriation.read more

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